Angry Muni rider smacks driver with cane

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A Muni rider was so upset Tuesday night when passengers blocked his path off a bus that he took out his anger on the driver, hitting her on the forehead with his cane, police said.

The rider, 57-year-old Denvie Coleman of San Francisco, was trying to get out the front door of a 14-Mission bus at 16th and Mission streets around 10 p.m., but he was blocked by people getting on, said police spokesman Sgt. Daryl Fong.

Coleman started yelling at them to get out of his way, police said. Once he made it out, he allegedly stepped in front of the bus so it couldn’t move, then took his complaint one step further.

He stepped to the driver’s side and used his cane to hit the driver, a 45-year-old woman, on the forehead through her open window, Fong said.

The driver, whose name was not released, was taken to a hospital with a contusion on her forehead, Fong said. Coleman was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault and on an outstanding warrant for failing to appear in court in an unspecified case.

Maybe stories like this are why Muni recordings politely ask passengers to “please exit through the rear doors.”